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Apparently, crispy potato corn dogs have been around for a while. Geez, all the crispy potato corn dogs I could’ve eaten all this time. (Spotted by Robbie at Costco.) If you’re out shopping and see …

(Photo by Lauren Lulu Taylor) I am losing a step. Actually, I believe the technical term is “becoming an idiot”. To be honest (“At least you’re being honest!” says my friend Chris, champion of dad …

As Okja unfolded I kept thinking of the comics I read in my youth. American comics were always bigger than superheroes with plenty of crime, autobiography and horror out there to please genre fans. This …

The first time that I came across the name Roy Rosenzweig was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.” The book discussed Rosenzweig’s 1983 book, Eight Hours for What We Will, as a …

Hi everyone! Hope you’re having a lovely weekend! I’m not sure where I heard it first, but someone once said that in the first two weeks after releasing an anticipated game, it gets played more …

Containing multitudes, Tyler C. Gore’s debut, My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments (Sagging Meniscus Press), is testimony to the weirdness of growing up Generation X, an homage to New York City, a cry …

Back in my university days, I used to haunt several bars and cafés near the university buildings with a few mates, students of literature and philosophy. We would typically choose a place to have lunch …

I’ve been doing a rewatch of Ranma 1/2 because it’s on Tubi and I forgot how important it was to me as a young trans person in the 90s. There wasn’t any other shows like …

This post is probably too long, but I need someplace that I can refer to. As is often the case, I am writing this to sort my thoughts, primarily. But I am hoping to give …

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Thinking back on the time that my Mum gave me the first six A Book Apart books as a gift when I first left Canada to start my career in the UK in 2011. They …

'...Sterling’s latest piece is one that transports listeners to a place that fluidly oscillates between the tangible and the metaphysical...' The post Louis Sterling – Danse Macabre appeared first on Sampleface.

It worked and I wrote--and kept writing. In the decade beginning with my first calendar year of blogging (2012), I published between 100,000 and 200,000 words on A Pilgrim in Narnia. It has been wonderful. …

"Advantage" and "disadvantage" are fantastic improvisational tools for 5e GMs. They give you incentives and discouragements to steer things towards the fun. Always remember that you have the ability to assign advantage and disadvantage in …

There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you …